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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.

Edward Albee

Influence is a matter of selection – both acceptance and rejection.
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Acceptance Influence Rejection Religion Selection
I write to find out what I’m talking about.
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Finding Myself Talk Writing
When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don’t put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
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Conscious Development Myself Play Writing
I don’t like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
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Head Hit Symbol Yourself
The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.
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Function Greatness Movie Ourselves People Touch
School curriculum that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.
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Education Ignorance Production School
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.
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Author Character Extension Material People Personality Source Yourself
Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Assumption One Liner Progress
One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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Lose Mindset Oneself Play Respond Understand
One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
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Careful Prevent Terrible Theatre
I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.
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Doubt Evolution Human Myself Place Thinking Time Wonder
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Fact Fiction Play Truth
The only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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Goodness Kill Myself Review Time
Anything you put in a play – any speech – has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
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Action Definition Oneself Play
A lot interests me – but nothing surprises me particularly.
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Interest Myself Surprise
The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.
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Act Feeling Optimism Trouble Writing Yourself

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